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...more than three years, Anna Feng didn't tell her husband that she had sunk nearly half of their savings into the Shanghai stock market. While he thought all their money was safely sitting in a bank, the value of the stocks plunged by almost 75%. But over the past couple of months, the Shanghai market has shown signs of life, and Feng, a 56-year-old retiree, has recouped half her losses. She's quietly hopeful that maybe she'll make it all back. "Everyone seems to be so optimistic about the markets now," she says...
...stated that Senator Clinton is "known to misread a crowd sometimes" and claimed that at a Kennedy Center benefit for AIDS last fall, "she harangued an audience already deeply engaged with the epidemic with an awkward demand that they do even more." As the event's organizer, I can tell you that about half the audience of 500 was not in any way "engaged with the epidemic." They were invited to the event in an effort to get them involved. Clinton eloquently called on the corporate and government leaders in the room to work harder, and her speech was punctuated...
...most casual observers: It seeks to regulate companies that store the belongings of those who are evicted from their homes, prohibiting arbitrary fees and holding the companies liable for damaged property. But what I remember about it is emphatically not mundane—I couldn’t tell you about the details of the bill or the facts and figures that comprised the argument for it, but I could vividly recount to you the stories of two women I met named Rosemary and Margaret, whose belongings were all but destroyed after a no-fault eviction from their Dorchester home...
...need to be directly engaging the institutionalized discrimination in the military,” Alexander said. “‘Don’t ask, don’t tell,’ is a seriously constitutionally and legislatively vulnerable...
...When I tell people that baseball is my favorite sport, I am oftentimes met with a mixture of confusion and impatience. Generally, those who disagree cite the deliberate pacing or the sexless antics or the eternal schedule as the sources of their discontent with the national pastime. These folks tend to prefer the ceaseless flow of soccer, the constant scoring of basketball, or the explosiveness of football to baseball and its subtler charms. In the way of counter-argument, I present the idyllic settings of ballparks, the tactical nuance that goes into every strategic decision, and the unmatched tension...